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AWS Athena and Redshift. Description and Use Cases.

What is Amazon Athena? Amazon Athena is a cloud-based query service for large-scale data analysis. Buyers of the product can use standard SQL to prepare and an…

Zero Trust in, and with, the Cloud

Zero trust initially focused on segmenting and securing the network across location and hosting models. Today, however, to be successful, zero trust must also …

AWS ECS, EKS, use cases, differences, deployment models

As the above diagram indicates, there are 6 deployment options, for Containers in AWS. It is rather confusing. The deployment model will depend on use cases, s…

Kubernetes and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a security mechanism in which each access authorization is based on roles that are assigned to a user. With this system, it…

AWS DevOps, tooling and process

DevOps is a combination of specific engineering practices and patterns, followed by cultural changes that increase an organization’s or team’s abil…

PaaS, Containers and CaaS – use cases

What’s the difference between PaaS and containers? A PaaS is typically a suite of cloud-based applications that organizations can use to accomplish speci…

Observability, Open Telemetry and trends in telemetry for 2022

Observability is at its core, the use of data to analyse what is happening with the system, understand threats and issues such as load or performance and to us…

IaaS, PaaS, CaaS – Containers and VMs

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Management of Clusters

A record number of organizations were using containers and Kubernetes to run their enterprise applications last year, according to the Cloud Native Computing F…

Deploying an API Control and Data Plane Gateway – a project example

3 Myths around Multi-Cloud

Cloud is King, but at times the myths around the King are difficult to comprehend. The ‘Cloud’ is a complete OSI stack and platform and there are extraordinari…

Jenkins and Continuous Integration and Builds

(Steps to deploy a Jenkins build server in AWS https://d1.awsstatic.com/Projects/P5505030/aws-project_Jenkins-build-server.pdf) Continuous integration takes co…